Databases and Search Engines

Australian Research Online --
Maintained by the National Library of Australia. Searches simultaneously the contents of Australian university and government research repositories plus other collections of Australian research.

INFOMINE: Government Information -- U.S. Federal, state, local, regional and international government resources are collected. U.S. Federal resources are emphasized.

Science.gov -- "FirstGov for Science": A gateway to “best science information” selected by participating U.S. Government agencies; includes research and development materials.

Science Accelerator -- Federated search of databases and search tools developed by the Dept. of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information.

SciTechResources.gov -- A companion to Science.gov and catalog of government science and technology web portals, as well as a search engine of those sites.

Scitopia -- "Scitopia.org accesses the digital libraries of leading science and technology societies worldwide. More than three million documents, including peer-reviewed journal content and technical conference papers, spanning 150 years of science and technology can be searched through the site.

WebCASPAR -- Science and engineering statistical data resources at U.S. academic institutions. WebCASPAR emphasizes S&E, but its data resources also provide information on non-S&E fields and higher education in general.

Worldwidescience.org -- A global science gateway - "accelerating scientific discovery and progress through a multilateral partnership to enable federated searching of national and international scientific databases." WWS now includes multilingual searching and translated results.